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1. beardyw ◴[] No.45793086[source]
I always felt that most numbers being irrational would make simulation tricky.

On the other hand, if it's just me, and everything including you is just simulated for my benefit, it's not too hard.

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2. mxkopy ◴[] No.45793214[source]
Indeed, simulating God himself will have to wait a little bit
3. anon291 ◴[] No.45795385[source]
There are no irrational numbers measurable in the universe. Irrational numbers as far as we encounter are computable via straightforward algorithms.
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4. beardyw ◴[] No.45797523[source]
> There are no irrational numbers measurable in the universe.

Because of course measurement reduces them to rational. That doesn't make them go away.

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5. anon291 ◴[] No.45802885{3}[source]
Unproveable superstitious rubbish. Irrational numbers exist as ideas, but there is no physical evidence that they are found in nature. We have processes that in their ideal limit will converge to numbers known to be irrational, and the law of large numbers certainly makes them appear to be such, but there is no physical quantity that is measured irrational. In fact we know that at some point we cannot measure much anymore so even the illusion of infinity is null.
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6. beardyw ◴[] No.45804023{4}[source]
I refer you to my previous answer.
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7. anon291 ◴[] No.45806766{5}[source]
I refer you to my original